“Hello.”
“Yeah, it’s me. I want to give you some good frequencies. One-seven-two. Two-point-six. Two-thousand-two-hundred-and-f ourty-five. Three-thousand- thirty-two. Four-hundred… ”
“Four-hundred?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m coming over.”
“Do that.”
“Hehe, I’ll be there in two seconds.”
Krieg: A Meat Bicycle Built for Two
I know I’ve been posting less of my thoughts and more buzzfeed type stuff, but this I couldn’t pass up. This short video is four-and-a-half minutes of pure Borderlands genius. It tells the story of Krieg the Psycho and it gives a brilliant look inside his deranged mind.
[embed width=”700″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3mhWvWEb9g[/embed]
I’m sure this doesn’t do the argument that video games don’t cause violence in society any good, but boy I can’t wait for the second short that Gearbox is going to release, probably somewhere later this week.
[Edit: here’s the second short film.]
[embed width=”700″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnFDjxtARqk[/embed]
Have I mentioned how much I love Borderlands? :)
Jump London
Anyone who digs Parkour, or its bastard cousin Free Running, really owes it to himself to watch the documentary Jump London, viewable on YouTube.
[embed width=”700″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8fSXGP9wvQ[/embed]
I’m not very fond of Sébastien Foucan. Or rather, I’m not fond of his claim to have invented Parkour, nor him relabelling it as Free Running. Free running has added a lot of frilly acrobatics that I don’t care much for, and I think David Belle should have been mentioned in the documentary, if only in passing.
(Foucan was one half of the awesome parkour scene in Casino Royale.)
Shadowrun Anxiety
Oh, I’m very nervous about my upcoming Shadowrun campaign. I’m busy cutting almost all the high fantasy out of the setting (replacing meta humans with evolved/mutated humans and magic with psionics, e.g), and making psionics more like it’s used in the film Looper (2012), where most people know parlour tricks, but it’s commonly accepted there’s not much more than that. As a result, the history and certain details of the world will need to change (no Great Ghost Dance, no dragons, e.g.) and I can finally get to the Shadowrun campaign I always wanted. Exciting!
Pretty soon I will start publishing some posts I’ve been working on to cover all the changes I want to make. Stay tuned!
Spoilers
The subject of spoilers has come up a few times in the last few days and as a result, I came to the realisation that I don’t mind spoilers because almost all film and television is so incredibly formulaic that I don’t need the spoilers to know what’s going to happen and how it’s going to happen. Very few things are a real Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense type twist for me anyway.